The talker revealed this good news to audience members of his show during the Late Show taping Monday.
The couple exchanged the vows before a justice of the peace on Thursday, March 19, in Choteau, Montana, and their 5-year-old son Harry was present at the ceremony.
During the taping, the 61-year-old talk show host said he never thought he'd tie the knot. "Regina and I began dating in February of 1986, and I said, 'Well, things are going pretty good, let's just see what happens in about 10 years ...,’" Letterman quipped. "I had avoided getting married pretty good for, like, 23 years," he said, "and I ... secretly felt that men who were married admired me, like I was the last of the real gunslingers."
Letterman further told his audience that he nearly missed his wedding last week, when on the way to the courthouse, their truck got stuck in the mud, forcing him to walk back in a howling gale to get the car.
"So now we think: Well, somebody'll come," said Letterman. "No, nobody ... comes along. Nobody comes along. It's Thursday afternoon, who's coming along, Zorro? No, nobody – so I get out of the truck and I walk two miles back to the house into a 50 mile per hour. It's not Beverly Hills, it's Montana, for God's sakes. And the whole way, I'm thinking: See, smart ass, see, see, you try to get married, this is what happens."
Letterman recounted when he arrived back with the other car to pick up Lasko, 48, and Harry, his son asked if they were still going into the town. "And I said, 'Yes, we are,'" recounted the talker, "and he gets very upset because mom had told him if I wasn't back in an hour, the deal was off."
This is the second marriage for Letterman. He was previously married to college sweetheart Michelle Cook from 1970-1977. "Dave," as he is commonly referred to by fans and guests, is intensely private, and is rarely photographed with his family. He and Regina Lasko have been dating since 1986.
Comedian and television personality David Letterman began his career as a stand-up comedian and was a guest host of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show from 1979. He has been the host of Late Show with David Letterman on CBS since 1993.
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Harry Joseph Letterman, a florist who died in 1973, and Dorothy, Letterman is also a television and film producer. His production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated produces his late-night show and several others, including Everybody Loves Raymond, The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, and several critically acclaimed, but short-lived television series for Bonnie Hunt.
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